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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF
DR. ELY DRESBACH.
(By J. A. McFarland.)
DR. ELY DRESBACH was born in
Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, in the year 1802. While he
was yet quite young, his parents, David and Catherine Dresbach,
removed with him to Pickaway county, Ohio, where they lived to a good
old age. As he grew up, young Dresbach was engaged, for
some time, in the mercantile business, but this occupation was not to
his taste, and at an early age he resolved to qualify himself to enter
the medical profession.
Unlike many young men, he was fortunate in choosing the
vocation for which nature had eminently fitted him.
He pursued his studies with great assiduity and success
in the office, and under the direction of Dr. Luckey, an eminent
physician of Circleville. After the usual time, thus spent, he
attended a course of lectures, at the Medical college of Ohio.
He then decided on trying his fortune among the
pioneers of northwestern Ohio, and finally settled down in Fort Ball;
and after a few years he crossed over the river to Tiffin, the seat of
justice for the newly organized county of Seneca. His old office
in Fort Ball, a small, one-story brick building, is still standing on
Sandusky street, a few rods north of McNeal's storeroom.
The rooms he occupied as an office, for some years before his death,
were on Washington street, where the Commercial bank now stands.
The winter of 1827-8 was passed in Cincinnati,
attending a second course of lectures, at the close of which he took the
degree of doctor of medicine. Again in his chosen field of labor,
his popularity went on increasing, till, at the end of the next decade,
it was immense and well merited.
"None knew him but to love him,
None named him but to praise.
And his name is still a household word in many of the
old families of this county.
In the practice of medicine and obstetrics the Doctor
took rank with the foremost men of his time; in surgery his standing was
only far, as he
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had no ambition to venture upon the more brilliant operations; these he
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DR. HENRY KUHN
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DR. ROBERT C. J. CAREY
Was a native of Marylnad, and located in Fort Ball about the time
Dr. Dresbach came here, and the two formed a partnership in the
practice.
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DR. JAMES FISHER
DR. JAMES FISHER.
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J. U. HECKERMAN
H. B. MARTIN
F. W. SCHWAN.
E. W. SULLIVAN
Was born in Tiffin, Ohio, March 22d, 1856; graduated at teh medical
department of Wooster university in1878.
E. J. M'COLLUM
Was born June 10th, 1826, in Richland county, Ohio; graduated at the
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Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, in March, 1853, and soon
thereafter located in Tiffin.
H. B. GIBBON
Was born March 12th, 1852, at Big Prairie, Wayne county, Ohio;
graduated at the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Sugary in June,
1877, and located in Seneca county in July the same year.
J. B. BLAND
Was born in Muskingum county July 22d, 1840; graduated at Starling
Medical college, Columbus, and located at Benton, Crawford county, in
1869.
L. E. ROBINSON
graduated at Rush Medical college, Chicago, in 1873, and settled in
Republic in 1876.
BENJAMIN S. STOVER
Was born June 13th, 1856, at Brooklyn, Cuyahoga county, Ohio;
graduated at Jefferson Medical college in 1878; located in Republic the
same year.
W. H. PAUL
Was born in Richland county, Ohio, Apr. 14th, 1848; graduated at
Miami Medical college, Cincinati, Ohio, in 1872; located in Adrian in
1876.
DR. ARIEL B. HOVEY.
Was born in Albany township, Orleans county, Vermont, Feb. 9th, 1829
When a boy fourteen years of age, he started for Ohio, and entered
Oberlin college, where he remained six years, and during this time read
medicine with Dr. Homer Johnson, in Oberlin. In 1850 he
entered the office of Prof. Ackley, in Cleveland, and graduated
in March, 1852, and in the same year located in Tiffin, where he has
remained ever since in the successful practice of his profession.
While Dr. Hovey is regarded as very able practitioner, he excels
as a surgeon, in which branch his skill and courage have made him
eminently successful and greatly celebrated. He is a member of
several state societies, as well as of the National Medical society.
MAURICE LEAHY
Was born Mar. 14th, 1853, in the county of Kerry, Ireland; graduated
in the medical department of the 'Wooster university, in Cleveland,
Ohio, Feb. 27th, 1878, and located in Tiffin in July, 1878.
JOHN D. O'CONNOR, M. D.
Snow covered the earth; the air was
very cold; the sky was overcast with heavy clouds; all nature looked
gloomy and dreary, and so did
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the senate chamber of Ohio, when, at ten o'clock in the morning of
the first Monday in January, A. D., 1862, the senate was called to
order. The city of ..........................
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THE TIFFIN GAS LIGHT COMPANY
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THE OHIO STOVE WORKS
Amongst the various industries of the city may be mentioned the Ohio
Stove works, a joint stock company, whose works are located near the
Baltimore and Ohio depot. The company is now well organized and in
successful operation.
THE TIFFIN AGRICULTURAL WORKS
Is a joint stock company. The works are located at the corner
of Water and Minerva streets, where they cover an area of about four
acres. They have a capital stock of about $100,000, and the
institution is under the control of efficient officers, and is in a
flourishing condition.
THE TIFFIN WOOLEN MILLS
Are also in successful operation, now employing about seventy hands.
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THE TIFFIN CHURN FACTORY.
Organized by A. C. Baldwin & Co., is doing a good business; it
prosecuted its work steadily during the late severe long panic, proving
that the institution is in able hands.
LOOMIS AND NYMAN'S FOUNDRY,
THE TIFFIN MANUFACTURING COMPANY
Is also a joint stock company, doing a great deal of work, and in
successful operation on Melmore street.
THE TIFFIN WATER WORKS
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
Is a new creation and fitting up a fine room in the market house
building. It was incorporated in March, 1880, and the following
named persons are the officers of the institution, viz:
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SENECA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY
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It was not long, however, until the subject
was agitated again, and now another notice was published as follows:
GOD SPEED THE PLOUGH
MR. JOHN D. LOOMIS
was born
Nov. 3, 1811, in Osego county, New York and was raised in Cayuga county,
same state. He came to Ohio in 1839 and located in New Haven where
he remained two years, and in 1847 removed to Tiffin, Ohio, where he
remained ever since. The firm of which he has been the head ever
since its location, has not only constantly increased sine its location
here, but has never been under the necessity of borrowing a dollar.
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MR. JOHN M. NAYLOR was born
at Wooster, Ohio, on the 9th of December, 1822. When a boy he became a clerk in a store in Wooster, then carried on by Messrs. Jacobs
and Kanke. This was in 1834. In 1847 Mr. Naylor,
in company with Mr. Harvey Howard, of Wooster, opened a hardware
store in Tiffin, which they carried on here until 1851, when Mr. Howard
sold his interest, in the store from that time was conducted in the name
of Naylor & Pittenger up to 1855. From that time to 1857
Mr. Naylor conducted the business alone, for three years, when he was
joined by a brother, W. W. Naylor, and the firm was called
Naylor & Bro. This firm was continued to Mar. 4, 1866, when
William W. Naylor died, and the immense establishment ahs ever since
been carried on by Mr. Naylor alone.
On the 11th day of December, 1849, Mr. Naylor
was married on Cornelia, daughter of Judge Pittenger. In 1857
he built the beautiful villa on Melmore street, where he still resides.
The mother of Mr. Naylor was a sister to Judge Musgrave, of
Crawford county. An uncle by marriage was Judge Dean, of
Wayne county, and my esteemed friend, Judge E. V. Dean, of Ironton,
Ohio, is a full cousin of J. M. Naylor.
Mr. Naylor's life is a fine specimen of a
self-made, successful career, based upon industry, economy, ability and
honesty. Ever busy, late and early, with a friendly word for
everybody, it is a matter of perfect wonder where he ever found time to
make himself master of history, civil government and universal geography.
HENRY GROSS.
HENRY
GROSS. In the
outset of this enterprise, the writer intended to say as little as
possible about the living, but to recall the past and present it to the
reader in its true light. Having unavoidably touched a few of the
living, it would wrong the harmony of the work did I not also mention
another distinguished Tiffinite, who, by his genius and skill, has won for
himself a national reputation.
Seneca county has not been slow in producing men of
distinction in almost every department of life. Our farmers are
celebrated for having made Seneca county the first "wheat county" in Ohio;
our mechanics are equal, at least, to the best of them; our lawyers and
doctors are men of note; the nation found a president as near to Seneca
county as possible; we have furnished the state with two state treasurers,
one governor, one lieutenant-governor and came within 29,000 votes of
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gress and
three colonels to the war, with a fair prospect of sending another; the
United States sent one of our citizens to represent her in China, and Pere
Hyacinthe married one of our fair daughters.
Henry Gross is the second son of Henry Gross,
sen., mentioned in a former chapter. He was born July 21, 1813.
When a boy he made himself busy in his father's gun shop and learned the
use of tools. As he grew up he formed a great taste for music and
the fine arts, and while he acquired and mastered the gunsmith trade,
became also an inventor. He secured a patent for a breech-loading
rifle, and, in company with Mr. Ed. Gwynn, started a factory.
In this, as in almost all his business undertakings, he allowed himself to
be over-reached and proved to his friend that he was more of a genius than
a financier. He secured many patents on ingenious steel and iron
works, time-locks on safes, etc. While he was in the employ of the
"Hall Safe and Lock Co.," in Cincinnati, for many years, he was sent for
from very many places in the United States to open safes that by some
accident had become fastened and nobody found to open them. Mr.
Gross traveled many thousand miles on missions of that nature, and
never failed in any case. He often astounded the by-standers in
opening safes in a few minutes when others had worked for days. It
is safe to say that there is not a safe made anywhere that Mr. Gross
cannot open in a very short time without knowing anything about the
combinations. Were it not for his high order of character and strict
integrity, he would certainly be a dangerous man to run at large.
Of his latest and best invention, the papers are full
of praise, and a copy of an article that appeared in the Southern
Merchant of November, 1879, is here added to show how Mr. Gross'
genius is appreciated by other people, and not to have it said that
William Lang runs wild with his love for old Seneca and his friends.
But here is the article:
In our occupation as journalists, recording the current
events of the times - the affairs of governments and political movements,
the evil doings of the criminal classes, the gyrations of society, the
theatrical stellar attractions, the condition of the great manufacturing
interests, the prospects of the growing crops, and the excitement in the
great commercial marts, and the educational, religious, and aesthetical
interests, it sometimes becomes our duty as well as pleasure to sing the
praises of the great geniuses and thinkers who overcome the obstacles of
nature and utilize her forces for the good, comfort and happiness of
mankind - the men who have a keen appreciation of the disadvantages under
which sorrowing humanity toil, and strive to attain happiness, and put
forth their best energies to dissipate them.
As one of this illustrious band we take pleasure in
classing Mr. Henry Gross, of Cincinnati, Ohio, with whom we had a
delightful and instructive
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interview, learning of his achievements in the
various branches of the mechanic arts to which he has turned his attention
and thoughts. His name is familiar to almost every banker
throughout the country as a skilled expert and the inventor of the finest
time and permutation locks extant, and they will no doubt be pleased to
learn that he has again come to their aid, promising them still further
protection from the hands of lawlessness.
We have neither time nor space to record all the
incidents of his eventful career, devoted as it has been to many fields of
inventive research, but we wish to speak somewhat limitedly of his later
achievements in the construction of devices for the preservation of
accumulated wealth, the reward of industry, from the natural and human
enemies which beset the possessor- we mean his improvements in the
construction of those trusty safeguards of the merchant and banker, the
fire and burglar-proof safes and vaults, and the locks and bolt-work
thereof.
Mr. Gross has had the most intimate and varied
experience in the construction of safes and locks during the past ten
years, and as an expert has been invariably successful in exposing the
weaknesses of safes put upon the market by their makers with the false
claims to security. As the result of this rich and varied
experience, we are not therefore surprised that Mr. Gross has
apparently reached the goal of excellence in this particular art, and we
will take pleasure in speaking somewhat in detail of his various
improvements.
First and foremost he exhibits a burglar-proof safe for
bankers' use, the door of which is guarded when closed by the most simple
and compact bolt work, so constructed that it presents a resistive
strength to fracture equal to five times that of any system of train bolts
now in use, and this bolt work, with the locks to guard it, is operated by
a massive invulnerable welded steel and iron disc, hung upon inner and
outer bearings so truly and perfectly that it can be revolved like a top
under the slightest pressure, while it is secured so strongly and closely
in a corresponding opening in the body of the door that it would require
tons of pressure or shock to remove it. The more immediate cause
that developed the necessity of this new department in safe construction
lay in certain discoveries made by Mr. Gross in the course of
his expert occupation of opening safes whose locks had become deranged or
the combinations lost by carelessness.
He found by experimental test that the various spindles
or arbors in common use, by means of which the locks and bolt work were
manipulated, could be successfully assailed, so that he seldom consumed
more than two hours, and usually about half that time or less, in utterly
destroying them and entering the safe. Feeling that such safes could
not be conscientiously recommended to the public as burglar-proof, he
devised the above described improvement, which entirely does away with the
use of spindles or arbors, and with this disc arrangement the safe has
then nothing passing through it, and the door and walls are solid alike.
Mr. Gross stakes his professional reputation on the merits of this
invention, which only requires to be seen to be appreciated; its
simplicity is apparent to everyone, and the practical man can readily see
that the inventor has simply taken advantage of the best construction to
secure maximum strength in the materials used.
The locks employed to secure this safe are the result
of much study, and
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are most admirably adapted to the purpose. The
time movement and permutation tumblers are closely connected within a
space of two inches square, and perform all the functions of the ordinary
bulky time and combination locks of ten times the size while possessing
new features of convenience and security that will be readily appreciated
by users. Mr. Gross also finally presents a fire-proof safe,
of excellent design and calculated per maximum efficiency in the
protection of its contents from fire.
All the inventions of Henry Gross, from his
first "time lock," show the master's hand of genius, and now that he has
practically demonstrated the excellent and invulnerability of the two last
efforts of his skill, it is sincerely to be hoped that bankers, county
treasurers, and those who use safes generally, will look at the merits of
his make before they buy the productions of mendacious manufacturers,
whose main merits consist in the liberal use of printer's ink.
If Mr. Gross' executive and financial abilities
were equal to his genius, he would have been a millionaire long since.
THE PRESS.
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WILLIAM W. ARMSTRONG.
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THE "SENECA WHIG."
THE SENECA COUNTY PIONEER ASSOCIATION.
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A PIONEER ASSOCIATION - OLD FOLKS, ATTENTION!
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called on the Rev. D. C. Howard to open the meeting with prayer.
Rev. John Souder was chosen chairman, and W. Lang,
secretary; a constitution was adopted and permament officers elected
as follows:
For president, Dr. Henry Kuhn; for
vice-president, Philip Seewald; for secretary, William Lang;
for treasurer, Lyman White.
Regular meetings were held for several years, which
were highly interesting; for many of the old settlers related incidents
of pioneer life in Seneca that were both pleasing and instructive.
No meetings were held since the death of Dr. Kuhn.
The following is a list of the members,
showing the time and place of birth, and time of location o each in this
county:
| Name. |
When and where born |
Time located here. |
| Mrs. Ann E. Seney |
Sept. 13, 1803, Pennsylvania
(dead) |
Nov. 26, 1831 |
| Mrs. Nancy Ellis |
Oct. 14, 1805, Fairfield
county, Ohio |
Eden, October 1820 |
| Mrs. Margaret Campbell |
July 12, 1798, Frederick co.,
Md. (dead) |
Tiffin, Sept. 30, 1830 |
| Mrs. Sally Frary |
Feb. 4, 1811, Champaign county,
O |
Fort Seneca, Nov. 19, 1819 |
| Mrs. Elizabeth Snook |
Mar. 1, 1813, "
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"
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| Mrs. Sarah Huss |
Feb. 27, 1796, Berkley co., Va.
(dead) |
Tiffin, September, 1825 |
| Mrs. Elizabeth Kridler |
Jan. 18, 1798, Allegheny co.,
Pa |
Tiffin, February, 1831 |
| William Toll |
Oct. 11, 1801, Augusta co., Va.
(dead) |
Tiffin, Oct. 3, 1824 |
| Benjamin Pittinger |
Jan. 29, 1798, Frederick co.,
Md |
Tiffin, Dec. 5, 1825 |
| John Souder |
Nov. 26, 1799, Lancaster co.,
Pa |
Clinton, June 17, 1826 |
| L. A. Hall |
Aug. 30, 1813 |
Tiffin, May 5, 1833 |
| Morris P. Skinner |
July 1, 1811, Franklin co., Pa |
Loudon, June, 1833 |
| James M. Stevens |
Dec. 31, 1816, Erie Co., N.Y. |
Eden, Nov. 13, 1827 |
| Daniel Cunningham |
Mar. 5, 1804, Baltimore, Md. |
Tiffin, July 19, 1834 |
| Samuel Kridler |
Mar. 28, 1800, Bedford county,
Pa |
Tiffin, Nov. 3, 1823 |
| Jacob Boner |
May 2, 1809, Frederick county,
Md. |
Tiffin, Sept. 19, 1826 |
| Lance L. Todd |
Jan. 7, 1806, "
"
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Scipio, Aug, 1828 |
| Christ. C. Park |
Oct. 4, 1829, Northumberland
co., Pa |
Tiffin, 1830 |
| Mrs. Jane Dewalt |
Apr. 5, 1815, "
" " |
Tiffin, April, 1824 |
| Mrs. S. B. Baker |
July 11, 1806, Center county,
Pa. |
Bloom Oct. 11, 1821 |
| David B. King |
Jan. 2, 1809, Butler co., Pa |
Tiffin, May, 1830 |
| Mrs. Ann Eliz. Clark |
Jan. 11, 1797, Northumberland
co., Pa. |
Tiffin, Oct. 12, 1830 |
| Mrs. Polly Stewart |
Apr. 6, 1806, Cayuga co., N.Y. |
Eden, 1821 |
| George L. Keating |
Sept. 8, 1824, Muskingum co., O |
Pleasant, Jan. 13, 1825 |
| James Boyd |
Jan. 27, 1805, Center co., Pa
(dead) |
Bloom, Apr. 11, 1822 |
| Lewis Baltzell |
Nov. 29, 1800, Frederick co.,
Md. |
Tiffin, July, 1829 |
| Abel Rawson |
May 11, 1798, Warwick co., Mass |
Tiffin, Feb. 15, 1826 |
| William Lang |
Dec. 14, 1815, Palatinate,
Bavaria |
Tiffin, Aug. 18, 1833 |
| Lorenzo Abbott |
Jan. 18, 1802, Worcester co.,
Mass |
Pleasant, March, 1822 |
| James Dornan |
July 4, 1796, Washington co.,
Pa |
Tiffin, May 21, 1828 |
| William Raymond |
Apr. 27, 1807, Steuben county,
N. Y. |
Reed, December 1823 |
| R. W. Shawhan |
Oct. 19, 1811, Berkley co., Va. |
Tiffin, S<ept. 10, 1833 |
| Elijah Musgrove |
Mar. 4, 1804, Monongahela co.,
Va |
Scipio, October, 1824 |
| James McEwen |
Feb. 14, 1818, Northampton co.,
Pa |
Clinton, Aug. 6, 1823 |
| Henry Ebert |
Nov. 29, 1801, Fayette co., Pa |
Tiffin, Nov. 15, 1830 |
| E. G. Bowe |
Apr. 5, 1818, Delaware, Ohio |
Tiffin, June 7, 1818 |
| Mrs. Maria Rawson |
May 16, 1818, Athens, Ohio |
Fort Ball, May 4, 1824 |
| Inman Roby |
December, 1812, Farquhar co.,
Va. |
Seneca, November, 1832 |
| Levi Keller |
Sept. 26, 1806, Fairfield
county, O. |
Tiffin, Sept. 20, 1820 |
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| Name. |
When and where born |
Time located here. |
| James M. Chamberlain |
Aug. 26, 1806, Columbiana co.,
Pa |
Seneca, December, 18_2 |
| A. B. McClelland |
June 7, 1818, Center co., Pa |
Bloom, November, 1830 |
| Thomas R. Ellis |
Aug. 8, 1795, Burlington co.,
NJ |
Clinton, June, 1828 |
| Fred. Kishler |
Oct. 22, 1806, Mifflen co., Pa |
Tiffin, Apr. 20, 1830 |
| Mrs. Elizabeth Kishler |
Mar. 26, 1803, Franklin co., Pa |
"
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| Joseph Herrin |
July 20, 1810, Columbia co.,
Pa. |
Clinton, August, 1828 |
| Samuel Herrin |
Aug. 21, 1812, "
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"
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| John Free |
Sept. 1, 1819,Berkley co., Va. |
Venice, Oct. 25, 1823 |
| Mrs. Elizabeth Ebert |
Jan. 22, 1802, Bucks county,
Pa. |
Tiffin, Nov. 15, 1831 |
| Mrs. Maria Shawhan |
Nov. 15, 1810, Frederick co.,
Md. |
Hopewell, June 28, 1834 |
| Lyman White |
Nov. 4, 1814, Oneida county, N.
Y. |
Reed, spring of 1838 |
| Dr. Henry Kuhn |
Oct. 28, 1802, Frederick co.,
Md. (dead) |
Tiffin, Aug. 1828 |
| Upton R. Flenner |
Mar. 12, 1811 "
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Tiffin, May, 1835 |
| Joseph Richards |
Apr. 7, 1792, Fayette county,
Pa |
Clinton, Dec. 10, 1823 |
| Henry Davidson |
Oct. 18, 1818, Pickaway co., O |
Seneca, Mar, 1832 |
| Jacob M. Zahm |
Nov. 14, 1808, Palatinate,
Bavaria |
Thompson, Sept. 24, 1832 |
| Hugh Welsh |
Feb. 18, 1801, Beaver county,
Pa |
Eden, spring of 1819 |
| Miron Sexton |
June 1, 1803, Tollard county,
Conn. - s/o Abel & Ruth |
Huron co., Sept. 20, 1824 |
| Sylvester B. Clark |
Feb. 2, 1802, Monroe county, Va |
Tiffin, Aug. 1, 1833 |
| Mrs. Catharine F. Souder |
May 22, 1825, Jefferson county,
Va. |
Hopewell, fall of 1830 |
| Nath. N. Spielman |
Mar. 25, 1815, Washington
county, Md. |
Pleasant, Apr. 20, 183_ |
| John Williams |
Apr. 21, 1818, Fairfield
county, Md |
Clinton, 1821 |
| Enos Cramer |
Feb. 24, 1801, Frederick
county, Md. |
Clinton, 1831 |
| Dewit C. Pittenger |
Jan. 24, 1836, Tiffin |
|
| Alma H?. Pittenger |
Oct. 31, 1844, Steuben county,
N. Y. |
Eden, ____ |
| Mrs. Margaret Watson, |
June 2_, 1823, Center county,
Pa. |
Tiffin, 1856 |
| Mrs. Hannah Herin |
Dec. 9, 1813, Maryland |
Clinton, 1833 |
| Mrs. Mary P. Lang |
July 10, 1818, Columbia county,
Pa. |
Clinton, spring of 1829 |
| Louis Seewald |
Sept. 15, 1831, Palatinate,
Bavaria |
Tiffin, Aug. 18, 1833 |
| James A. Sohn |
Nov. 19, 1832, Adams county,
Pa. |
Tiffin, Apr. 21, 1834? |
| Robert Nichols |
Dec. 2, 1827, Berkley county,
Va. |
Eden, November, 1831? |
| Arthur Morrison |
Aug. 8, 1817, Jefferson county,
O. |
Clinton, Mar. 21, 1818? |
| Mrs. Jane Dildine |
Nov. 29, 1806, Columbia co.,
Pa. |
Clinton, May 10, 1829 |
| James Griffin |
Apr. 16, 1796, Berkley county,
Va. |
Eden, fall of 18_1 |
| S. A. Myers |
Dec. 4, 1830, Perry county, O. |
Seneca, September, 1835 |
| Mrs. Eliza A. Searles |
July 14 1817, Northampton
county, Pa., |
Clinton, 1825 |
| R. M. C. Martin |
Sept. 18, 18_2, Perry county,
O. |
Eden, May, 1830 |
| Mrs. Barbara Martin |
Feb. 19, 1831, Seneca county,
O. |
Eden township |
| Jacob Price |
Dec. 18, 1896, Rockingham co.,
Va. |
Eden, 1822 |
| Mrs. Nancy Price |
Sept. 14, 1804, Northampton
co., Pa. |
Veu_ee, Sept., 1830 |
| Henry H. Schock |
Nov. 2, 18_0, York co., Pa.
(dead) |
Eden, 1833? |
| Mrs. Margaret Schock |
Dec. 10, 1804?, Frederick co.,
Md. |
Eden, 1833? |
| Mrs. Elizabeth Jaqua |
Oct. 2, 1798, Schenectady co.,
N. Y. |
Eden, 18_2 |
| John Wax |
Sept. 13, 1813, Perry county,
co, O |
Eden, 183_ |
| Mrs. Sarah Wax |
Mar. 17, 1811?, Franklin co.,
O. |
Eden, 18_2 |
| Jacob Hossler |
Jan. 18?, 18_0, Adams co., Pa. |
Bloom, 1834 |
| Mrs. Ann Hossler |
June 9, 1814?, Stark co., O. |
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| Mrs. E. J. Watson, |
Mar. 9, 1815, Washington co.,
O. |
Eden, 1815 |
| Mrs. Eva Kirshner |
Sept., 1802, Franklin co., Pa. |
Eden, 1827 |
| Henry Geiger |
Mar. 18, 1812, Baden, Germany |
Eden, 18_5 |
| Thomas West |
Sept. 15?, 18_1, Brown co., N.
Y. |
Bloom, 1822 |
| Nancy West |
May 15th, 18_6, Center county,
Pa. |
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| Geo. McLaughlin |
Oct. 15, 1798, Juniata co., Pa. |
Seneca co., Sept. 22, 1825? |
| Joseph Miller |
Mar. 26, 18_7, Cumberland co.,
Pa. |
Seneca co., Sept. 18, 1834. |
| Archibald Stewart |
June 3, 1797, Lycoming county,
Pa. |
Scipio, 18_5 |
| William Davis |
Jan. 18, 1819, Perry co., O. |
Seneca co., Nov. 12, 1825 |
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It was Thursday evening,
Nov. 24, 1853, and eighteen young German citizens of Tiffin met at
the hall of Mr. Adams, on East Market street, in Tiffin, and
organized a singing society under the direction of Christian
Kunold, an old German music teacher:
First tenors - Christian
Mueller, Michael Miller, Christian Siegchrist, Louis Zimmer, John
Laux.
First bass - Louis Miller, Christian
Schneider, John Keirchner, John Merkelbach.
Second tenor - Wilhelm Berger, F. W.
Berger, Will Seewald, Simon Stricker, Carl Stadtmiller
Second bass - Ph. Emich, Francis Ries, Adam Huth,
Joseph Yaeger.
After practicing three
months, a committee was appointed to draft a constitution which was
adopted Feb. 24, 1854, and teh society called "Der Bruderbund."
Christian Mueller was elected president, Ph.
Emich secretary and William Berger treasurer.
The following persons then also became members, viz:
Andrew Waesner, William Speier, Carl Mueller, John Hasse, Carl
Schindler, W. Wolf, John Schmilt, Michael Welter, William Herold,
Francis Adams, John Ries, John Blum, Bernhart Striker.
The number of members soon rose to
eighty, but before long it became reduced to about ten active
members. A dissolution seemed inevitable, but the perseverance
and tenacity peculiar to German life preserved the organization, and
the Bruderbund for a long time thereafter was the only German
association in Tiffin.
"Die Deutsche Theatergeselskaft" preceded it several
years. This was perhaps the first German society organized in
Tiffin. It had considerable talent and produced several pieces
upon the stage in the old Methodist church on Market street, that
were very ably put over the boards.
Let us remember "Feld Hummel's Hochzeitstag." But
first of all, the "Deutsche Leseverein," that used to meet at
Adam Schickel's, on East Market street, wasd the pioneer German
association in Tiffin, and continued for several years until
religious discussions broke it up.
The Sunday evening exercises of the Bruderbund were
open to all, and no distinction was made by the association as to a
man's politics or his religion.
In 1856 the Bruderbund joined the "North American
Saengerbund" and met with its festivals in Cincinnati in 1856, in
Detroit in 1857 in Pittsburgh in 1858, in Cleveland in 1859 and in
Buffalo in 1860. From this time, and during the war, the "saengerfests"
were suspended.
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THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.
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THE SENECA COUNTY INFIRMARY.
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MRS. HARRIET CRAWFORD.
The subject of this sketch
is certainly one of the most remarkable women that ever lived in
Tiffin, or elsewhere.
She was born in Attercliff, England, and when sixteen
years of age was married. Her health failing, her physician
recommended a sea voyage as the only remedy to restore her health.
Her husband, who was a civil engineer, succeeded in finding
employment in the East India Company. The young couple sailed
for Calcutta, where, after a voyage of six months and seventeen
days, they arrived, having landed but once during that time.
Shortly after their arrival, the young husband died of cholera, that
dreaded monster of the East in those days, and the young widow was
left alone in a strange land among strangers.
She became acquainted some time after, with Dr.
William L. Crawford, a young physician in Calcutta, belonging to
the British army, and became his wife. They lived at various
places in the East Indies some fourteen years, when they moved to
the Cape of Good Hope, where they resided some two years. From
there they moved to the island of St. Helena, while the great
Napoleon was a prisoner there, and then moved back to England.
From there they emigrated to Canada, where Dr. Crawford died
in 1845.
Mrs. Crawford was the mother of
eleven children, eight boys and
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three girls, who were born on four continents of the globe - some in
Asia, some in Africa, some in Europe and some in America.
In 1853 she came to Tiffin from Canada with the family
of her son, the present Dr. Crawford, of Tiffin, with whom
she lived the rest of her days, spending the evening of her long and
eventful life in ease and comfort, and enjoying the respect and
veneration of all who knew her.
Her death occurred to the 12th day of September, 1876,
from congestion of the lungs.
She reached the high age of eighty-nine years and
thirty days. She was the mother of Asiatics, Africans,
Europeans and Americans.
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